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June 20, 2024
Imagine confidently deploying Ansible Playbooks knowing they're free of security vulnerabilities and compliance issues. The integration of Steampunk Spotter …
January 24, 2023
Ansible Lint is a tool that checks your Ansible Playbooks for errors and provides recommendations for improvements. Steampunk Spotter is a tool that checks your …
January 17, 2023
If you're reading this, you know the feeling of putting off upgrading your Ansible Playbooks for as long as possible because you know it will take time, effort, …
December 20, 2022
Upgrading Ansible Playbooks and roles to the latest Ansible version can be quite a challenge, as a lot can change between versions (best practices alter, …
November 9, 2022
Don't you wish you had a little helper by your side to spot elusive errors when writing Ansible Playbooks? Or anticipate potential problems playbooks might …
November 3, 2022
We're constantly improving Steampunk Spotter by adding new checks that enhance stability, reliability, and security of your Ansible Playbooks, and enriching the …
September 7, 2022
If you are reading this, you are no stranger to the Ansible update and upgrade process. The fact that Ansible is constantly being improved is great. And while …
August 30, 2022
There hasn’t been much buzz around our Ansible Playbook Quality Scanner lately. But with a good reason. Our team has been putting blood, sweat, and tears (of …
July 13, 2022
The point of automating IT tasks is to save time. But in reality, the process of successfully automating a task can actually take longer than the task itself if …
January 12, 2022
Ansible Collections gave us much more control over the content we use when building our Ansible Playbooks. But they also brought …
November 11, 2021
Almost exactly five months ago, we unveiled the first version of Steampunk Scanner . To keep things simple, we only offered an …
June 17, 2021
We often talk about techniques and tools that help developers write high-quality Ansible content (modules and plugins). Of course, …